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Accompanies a speech in Murer's play on the persecution of Christ. Here, Truth is crowned and holds an open book bearing the words "Verbu(m) dei". A soldier bears a shield marked "Persequution"; a man carries a bellows marked "Superstit". A figure on the ground in the centre leans on a book marked "Traditio". Cannons bear the words "Proditio" and "Violentia". On the right Time carrying an hour-glass holds Truth by the wrist